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The Dunn’s Road fire burns pine trees near Maragle, New South Wales, on 10 January. Credit: Matthew Abbott/New York Times/Redux/eyevine
January 30, 2020
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Researchers have started an attribution study to determine how much global warming is to blame for the blazes that have ravaged the continent...The work is being led by researchers in Europe who have conducted multiple rapid analyses of global warming’s role in extreme events. The team first has to grapple with how it will define the fire event for the purpose of its study: it is tricky to model the various weather conditions that increase fire risk, and the blazes haven’t yet died out.

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